Pnut, (inspired by subway art) This is one of the earliest pieces done in Cardiff, St,Mellons. it was done by my uncle whose tag then was Pnut, this must be 1984-85, this inspired me and many others on the estate to start painting graff, i seen this before subway art infact, anyway it turned up on facebook so props to the guy that had and posted this picture.
it was never touched for years, infact though it faded by the sun, rain etc it was still able to be seen up onto when the council buffed it around 10 years ago. So happy to of found this, it really is graff history in cardiff, just hope more pictures are found and put up, even though i dislike facebook, without it or the people on it you wouldn't have gems seeing light of day on cyberspace..
classic local old skool graffiti history..
it was sorted by dancer frankie johnson, a minor local celebrity in Cardiff at the time, and was sponsored/funded by the bank, a club in town, this was even featured and published in the local rag, south wales echo. back then graffiti was a new thing, most thought it was a passing fad from the bronx, new york. little did they know its now gaining much more support in the art world, kinda reminds me of the impressionists in paris in the 1860's where monet, renoir, degas, etc they were laughed at by the pretentious art elite, it took around 20 years for these artists to have the last laugh and for people to get into their artwork and start to buy works, making the artists very rich, and setting modern art and the movements that followed after.
This has happened a lot since in the art world, where one critic can make you a star or failure.
i'm not sure if the artworld is good for graffiti though.
also you can't say graffiti is mindless shit, compared to other art movements?
what other artform was born out of poverty by young pissed off youth, that used trains to carry there name around the city.
who risked and still risk, arrest, jail sentences, risk your life for your art, use letters instead of images, an abstract type of art most people like, you hear positive comments by joe public when painting, though you still get the 10% that dislike it, its propaganda by the government's media that turn people away from the positive vibes graffiti bring out in many people that my and younger generations, now as these people age and have the money, though at the moment due to the banks gambling peoples money we have a lack of money around.
hopefully this will turn around in the next 5-10 years. oh ive had positive feedback about the 80's jam being planned, hopefully things will be dope on the day if we go ahead with this jam set for the bank holiday in aug, i'll speak in more detail about that soon, but we've got a place to hold it now, its just seeking funding for paint, boards, dj's, break and street dancers, and with the 80s music policy to go with the day we'll have mc's, and dancers, writers battling etc.
anyway ive more things to post soon, i've been slack on this blog, just with this new laptop, ive not put much artwork on it also my printer.scanner doesn't seem to work with this Windows 8 laptop, i'll sort everything out soon as..
I'm going to do a deal with my neighbour with my last main PC so i'll sort out all the flicks, music i have on that and move it all to an external hard drive and new desktop pc i'm hoping to get soon.
anyway nice one,,, take care,, peace for now....
